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Originally Posted by Flame19,289
I wouldn't say that Ortio has been "dominant" in the AHL. Matt Murray in Wilkes-Barre and Jacob Markstrom in Utica were dominant last year. Ortio was pretty average and ranked 31st for Save%.
The question that I have about Ortio is whether the Canucks franchise owns the book on him. He was winless against Utica last year (W-L record of 0-8, pulled in another loss after giving up 3 goals; Thiessen ended up getting the L). In those nine games against Utica, Ortio's Save% was 0.891%. His save percentage was 0.916 against the rest of the AHL. That's a pretty significant difference.
Given that the Flames & Canucks are division rivals, how much attention should be paid to this? Maybe none... but I think it's worth at least considering it. Maybe this is part of the reason that he's 3rd on Hartley's depth chart.
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That's where the whole context within stats thing comes into play. I'm assuming you didn't read my previous post...
Utica is a veteran led team and was one of the favorites to win the Calder cup last season. Yes Markstrom looked good and was the main reason they traded Lack. If Ortio had Utica's veterans in front of him instead of Calgary's rookies, I'm sure he'd of looked just as good if not better than Markstrom (who by all accounts has otherwise under-performed the last few seasons).
You kind of just proved my point with that post, so thanks.
Also, I hope you realize Ortio shutout Vancouver last season (in the NHL). That kind of nullifies the last half of your post.